Evelle J. Younger
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Evelle Jansen Younger (June 19, 1918–May 4, 1989) was Attorney General of California from 1971 to 1979. Prior to that, he was District Attorney of Los Angeles County 1964–1971. In 1978, he ran for Governor of California, but lost to incumbent Jerry Brown. Younger was a member of the United States Republican Party.
Younger served in the United States Army during World War II and then became an FBI agent. He was a municipal judge in California from 1953 to 1958 and a superior court judge in California from 1958 to 1964, when he became district attorney of Los Angeles County.
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